Translators Anonymous

@translatorsanonymous

Anonymously famous since November 2012, this blog is run by two translators, most of whom are girls, who sometimes lovingly have a go at each other's languages. Sharing the everyday neuroses of translating. You can like us on Facebook (And you really should because there's a whole lot of discussion going on there.) Also visit our sister blog A Day In The Life Of A PM

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Type a phrase and watch it fall off a wall behind Theresa May

Type your own in the url...

When you click “accept” by accident in spellcheck

#mayhem spellcheck

Friendly reminder that QA tools are supposed to be helpful, not make me spend ages justifying myself as if I don't know what I'm doing and a piece of software is somehow a better linguist than me.

The article, published in a British newspaper, aimed to reach out to Europeans. It failed.

"Who even needs translators, WE'LL SHOW YOU!!!"

(Disclaimer: I haven't read the original piece because I wouldn't touch The Sun with a ten-foot pole)

#brexit #fail

When the client uses memes in their instructions

#we're going to get along just fine you and me

When you find an error in a locked segment and you realise it was you who wrote it in 2011

Really straightforward text but in a tool that thinks it’s from NASA

#so impressed omg you have no idea wow wooooow you so amaze

'Client X came back.' 'Client Y came back.' Jesus is about to come back. Everyone comes back. Everyone, except my youth.

Going to comment in the query portal for ALL the language teams and feeling like a Eurovision presenter. Hand me my sequins, I'm about to shout 'GOOD EVENING, EUROPE!